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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prospects of the company. Our growth has never been more certain." Enron workers were further hamstrung by Enron's switching of plan administrators and freezing of all asset shifting within 401(k) accounts for at least 10 days, just as Enron stock was taking its dive. The result was ruin, as Enron sank from $90 to under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enron: Who's Accountable? | 1/13/2002 | See Source »

...nearly every well-known college-ranking publication dubs Harvard the most “selective” school in the nation? Something is far, far amiss here, dear readers. Indeed, it is a sad day when high achievers are allowed to seep into the infrastructure of a school and ruin its reputation by running up its grades...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Modest Proposal | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

...unfortunate piece of journalism. By midday, lower Manhattan was a smoking ruin, bombing the Pentagon had a new meaning, and revolutionary violence was no longer the subject of nostalgia. Our holiday from history, from seriousness of thought and purpose, was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hundred Days | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

What is left of the great caliphate today? It is a ruin. Caliph Omar is in hiding; Caliph Osama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only In Their Dreams | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London. The ruin in terms of human life was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 56 Years Ago in TIME | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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